Helena Adams 13c
Portrait Photography
of a person or group, typically focusing on facial expression.
Jeanloup Sieff
A french fashion photographer who joined magnum in 1958, his imageds are influenced by 50 films and have carr an elegant atmosphere . Sieff was especially facinated by dancers , stating that they have "corporeal intellegence" and were able to fill his frame with thier movements.
Edward Steichen
Edward steichan moved to the USwith his family in 1881, growing up he wanted to be a painter but was soon hooked on photogrpahy after his father gave him a camera inb 1896. He studied painting and photogrpahy in paris in the years 1900-14 when he becme an ariel photogrpahe for theUS army, his experience of war drove him away from the impressionistic pictorialist style and more to sharp images.
He was later said to be "the worlds greatest photographer " in vogue and was the mind behind the collasal "family of man" exhibition , and an active member of Magnum.
Arnulf Rainer
An austrian artist born in 1929, he grew up in pre second world war austria and attended a national socialist party school ( NAZI) where art classes carried military themes. Rainer left school at 16 and graduated as a structual engineer. he had no formal art training but was influenced by surrealist painters , he took photogrpahs of twisted faces (see left) occasionally using facepaint to enhance features, then painted over the finished images to emphasize certain points.
Julia Margaret Cameron
Born in 1815 , Cameron took up photography at the age of 48 when she was given a camera as a present , she became one of the greatest influences on portrait and pictorialist photography - breaking the conventioinal rules of focus ( she was often critised by her contemporariies for this) and delibrately distroyed negatives to create more origional photos. Her photos often carry religios themes or emulate popular stories of her time - such as that of Beatrice Cenci.
Julia Margaret Cameron - Artist Copies/ Inspired
These pictures were taken with a film camera , I wanted to do this as I didnt want to add fake grain and texture on photoshop.I took them using one bedroom lamp as my lighting so the shutterspeed and aperture had to be quite low - however as these pictures are inspired by the softly focused portraits of Julia Margaret Cameron this was not an issue.
